Many people underestimate the value of a good cooler until it’s already too late and they’ve suffered some kind of a failure or problems. The importance of a high quality and high performance fan is most notable when users begin to try to overclock their systems which cause the system to generate even more heat. In other cases, there are situations in which a stock cooler [especially one on Intel Core processors] just isn't enough to cool down the processor in a badly thermally designed enclosure.Once overheating or throttling occurs, there is a certain threshold that most CPUs are capable of withstanding until the processor becomes unstable. As such, the better the cooling the higher most people can OC on air without having to invest in more expensive water cooling or even more expensive chillers. The key here is to remember that there are now water cooling solutions out there that in their lowest price range can dip into high-end air cooler territory, but we’ll leave that for another review.